The third annual Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, an international award to recognize the accomplishments of outstanding women scientists, will be presented to British geneticist Mary Frances Lyon on November 2. The prize, awarded by Rockefe...

Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) are working on an implantable electronic chip that may help establish nerve connections in the part of the brain that controls movement. Their most recent study, to be published in the N...

Using an innovative three-dimensional imaging technique, a team of UCLA researchers have tracked how Alzheimer's disease spreads through the hippocampus - the area of the brain linked with memory - in a pattern consistent with the known tr...

Northwest Biotherapeutics (OTC Bulletin Board: NWBT.OB) updated survival and progression data on patients from two clinical trials carried out at The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). The patients were treated with DCVax(R)-B...

Neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists at a leading cancer hospital in Taiwan are utilizing the world's most versatile medical linear accelerator to carry out highly precise intra-cranial stereotactic radiosurgery treatments. Patients at...

When your eyes are presented with erotic images in a way that keeps you from becoming aware of them, your brain can still detect and respond to the images according to your gender and sexual orientation, a team of University of Minnesota p...

A blood test is being developed which detects two types of proteins only present in people with Alzheimer's disease, say scientists from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London, UK. The test can identify Alzheimer's diseas...

Scientists have identified a naturally occurring enzyme that can break down a key component of the brain plaques characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. The finding may provide researchers with opportunities to understand what goes wron...

An elusive neurotransmitter pathway in the skin may have been isolated by University of Oregon researchers, a discovery that, if confirmed, would be a leap forward in understanding how temperature regulation occurs. In other words, they ma...

From humans to honey bees, neuropeptides control brain activity and, hence, our behaviors. Understanding the roles these peptides play in the life of a honey bee will assist researchers in understanding the roles they play in their human c...